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‘Before the fall of communism in 1989, Bulgaria exported five million hectolitres of wine a year to the Soviet Union.’

‘A company executive said the brewer's plant in the capital will be expanded from its current capacity of 1.4 million hectolitres to 1.7 million hectolitres per year.’

‘Instead of a normal 50-60 hectolitres per hectare for dry white wines, we are talking about yields of around 16-20 hectolitres per hectare.’

‘It has been estimated that they would have contained about 2,500 hectolitres of wine; details of their capacities were inscribed below their necks.’

‘China consumes an estimated 250 million hectolitres of beer per annum, the world's biggest by volume.’

‘Consumption rose from 5.2 million hectolitres in 1996 to an estimated 5.6 million hectolitres last year, significantly below the economy's rate of growth.’

‘Production aimed for the Irish market currently amounts to 724,782 hectolitres in cans and 277,317 hectolitres in bottles.’

‘It cost them $380,000 to launch the new beer, and they plan to double production, to 4,500 hectoliters a month, for summer drinkers.’

‘Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer.’

‘The establishment of the common external tariff resulted in significant cost increases, and therefore the German Government asked the Commission for permission to import 450,000 hectolitres of this wine at the old, lower rate of duty.’

‘The country imports 10 million hectolitres every year.’

‘Its sales rose nine per cent compared to the previous year and stood at 1 461 000 hectolitres.’

‘It will mean the 50 per cent reduction on excise duty for the first 5,000 hectolitres produced will apply to breweries with an output of up to 60,000 hectolitres a year.’

‘The volume of wine produced may well have trebled to 900,000 hectolitres at the same time.’

‘This configures the site to have a capacity of two million hectolitres by May 2001 at the latest.’